Alexander Archipenko was one of the first to apply the principles of Cubism to architecture, analyzing human figure into geometrical forms.
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Alexander Archipenko was one of the first to apply the principles of Cubism to architecture, analyzing human figure into geometrical forms.
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Alexander Archipenko was born in Kyiv in 1887, to Porfiry Antonowych Archipenko and Poroskowia Vassylivna Machowa Archipenko; he was the younger brother of Eugene Archipenko.
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Alexander Archipenko then moved to Moscow where he had a chance to exhibit his work in some group shows.
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Alexander Archipenko moved to Paris in 1908 and quickly enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, which he left after a few weeks.
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Alexander Archipenko was a resident in the artist's colony La Ruche, among emigre Ukrainian artists: Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Nathan Altman.
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In 1922 Alexander Archipenko participated in the First Russian Art Exhibition in the Gallery van Diemen in Berlin together with Aleksandra Ekster, Kazimir Malevich, Solomon Nikritin, El Lissitzky and others.
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Alexander Archipenko contributed the most to the success of the Ukrainian pavilion.
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Alexander Archipenko is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.
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Alexander Archipenko departed from the neo-classical sculpture of his time, using faceted planes and negative space to create a new way of looking at the human figure, showing a number of views of the subject simultaneously.
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Alexander Archipenko began work on a smaller prototype of the statue in 1964, but died before the work was finished, leaving his wife to oversee its completion.
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